Interview: About face

27/11/2015 | Reform

Joanna Jepson talks to Stephen Tomkins

At 14, after a church youth group pizza party, Joanna Jepson received a letter in green felt tip saying “Can opener! You’re so ugly why don’t you kill yourself”. She had a congenital condition … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 1:39-56

27/11/2015 | Reform

Neil Thorogood enjoys Mary’s song

Think of what it feels like to be told really big news. There can be a blizzard of emotions: Shock and bewilderment, delight and wonder, uncertainty and confusion. Often, our response is all about trying … Read More

A good question: Is there an unforgivable sin?

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One question, four answers

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This is an extract from the December 2015/January 2016 edition of Reform.

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Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Spare a thought for Joseph

27/11/2015 | Reform

It’s Christmas. You’re going to be in the nativity play. What character would you most like to be?” Steve Tomkins (the esteemed editor of this magazine) and I, armed with a video camera, were stopping people in their tracks at … Read More

Christian Activist: Lonely this Christmas

27/11/2015 | Reform

Leanne Clelland tackles loneliness at Christmas

On 25 December 2009, Bezwada Wilson, an activist working with manual scavengers in Delhi, was on a train on his way to work. Although a Christian, Wilson had decided six years previously that he … Read More

Mothers at the mercy of a preventable killer

27/11/2015 | Reform

Last year, malaria killed half a million people, yet it can be prevented by something as simple as a net, and is entirely treatable. Tomilola Ajayi meets the women of Kenya affected by it and reports on one of the … Read More